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Text blocks: 1500 - 1700 A.D. Extract of Disney’s Content Production ... Television In Search of Reliable Internet ... History: "Indigenous ... Changes Eliminating online censorship: Freenet, ... Media Control and the Influence of ... Sponsorship Models Challenges for Copyright by ICT: ... Basics: Infringement and Fair Use Pressures and Attacks against ... It is always the others Recent "Digital Copyright" ... Identificaiton in history Individualized Audience Targeting The Secret Behind Advertising and the Content Industry - ... Asymmetric or Public-Key-Cryptosystems "Attention Brokerage" More and more, faster and faster, but... Timeline 1970-2000 AD Anonymity Satyrs, Frankenstein, Machine Men, ... Hill & Knowlton RTMark Commercial vs. Independent Content: ... The Cassini Case Commercial vs. Independent Content: ... Commercial vs. Independent Content: ... Biotechnology: robotics and artificial ... History: Communist Tradition Basics: Limitations On-line Advertising and the Internet ... biotechnology introduction Steganography 4000 - 1000 B.C.   Index cards 1996 WIPO Copyright Treaty (WCT)

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4000 - 1000 B.C. 4th millennium B.C. In Sumer writing is invented. Writing and calculating came into being at about the same time. The first pictographs carved into clay tablets were used for administrative purposes. As an instrument for the administrative bodies of early empires, which began to rely on the collection, storage, processing and transmission of data, the skill of writing was restricted to only very few. Being more or less separated tasks, writing and calculating converge in today's computers. Letters are invented so that we might be able to converse even with the absent, says Saint Augustine. The invention of writing made it possible to transmit and store information. No longer the ear predominates; face-to-face communication becomes more and more obsolete for administration and bureaucracy. Standardization and centralization become the constituents of high culture and vast empires as Sumer and China. 3200 B.C. In Sumer the seal is invented. About 3000 B.C. In Egypt papyrus scrolls and hieroglyphs are used. About 1350 B.C. In Assyria the cuneiform script is invented. 1200 B.C. According to Aeschylus, the conquest of the town of Troy was transmitted via torch signals. About 1100 B.C. Egyptians use homing pigeons to deliver military information. browse Report: Timeline of Communication Systems -1   Timeline of Communication Systems: Introduction 0   4000 - 1000 B.C. +1   1000 B.C. - 0 +2   0 - 1400 A.D. +3   1400 - 1500 A.D.      ... More and more, faster and faster, but...  INDEX CARD     RESEARCH MATRIX  1996 WIPO Copyright Treaty (WCT) The 1996 WIPO Copyright Treaty, which focused on taking steps to protect copyright "in the digital age" among other provisions 1) makes clear that computer programs are protected as literary works, 2) the contracting parties must protect databases that constitute intellectual creations, 3) affords authors with the new right of making their works "available to the public", 4) gives authors the exclusive right to authorize "any communication to the public of their works, by wire or wireless means ... in such a way that members of the public may access these works from a place and at a time individually chosen by them." and 5) requires the contracting states to protect anti-copying technology and copyright management information that is embedded in any work covered by the treaty. The WCT is available on: http://www.wipo.int/documents/en/diplconf/distrib/94dc.htm http://www.wipo.int/documents/en/diplconf/dis...